Rory comments at some length on some of the slippery philosophical issues
surrounding perception and epistemology.
For folks who want to be boggled even more, here is a lead to an upcoming
target article in Brain and Behavioral Sciences (BBS). Oversimplifying what is
quite an interesting argument (I think), Stoffregen and Bardy argue against the
position that the senses are separate.
Here's the URL:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.stoffregen.html
Pat Cabe
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